CoCoCrew Episode 67

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:45)
  • CoCoFEST! is 4 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 9 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:18)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
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  • Show audio hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    • mike@cococrew.org
    • boisy@cococrew.org
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2021: April 24-25, 2021
  • Tandy Assembly 2021: Oct 1-3, 2021
• News (0:15:51)
  
  • DevTerm: An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev. (ClockworkPi)
  • How to Pick nice colors (Tutorial for beginners) (MortMort @ YouTube)
  • It's a new fast-action game made in assembly language for the MC-10 (Buford McGillicutty)
    V1.01 of SUKS, which fixes 2 problems when using the MCX hardware.
    I have uploaded the source code for suks to the file section.
  • Veccy-Veccy demo 2 "I must have fruit!" (James G. Watt)
    
    
  • I re-drew the Bjork / Ward / Gault schematic in KiCad and added some theory of operation notes. (Chris Burke)
  • Trying to squeeze the runtime errors out of the 6809 code translator. (Joel Ewy)
    Here's the OS-9 Pascal compiler, lightly modified to run properly on the MM/1.
  • The Atom-in-PC is a "simple" processor board with an 6502 or compatible microprocessor (e.g. R65C02 or 65802). (Roland Leurs)
  • "Conflict" M.Shant & S.Loy 1981. Ported from Coco to TRS-80 MC-10." (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • The DPC chip sound generators were such a fun circuit I will explain them here... (David Crane)
  • Exploring 6809 assembly 0 setup your programming environment (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Having a batch of these made out of very thin PCB material... (Chris Burke)
    Someone mentioned they could use an adapter for the old-style CoCo keyboard flex (pins instead of a flex edge)...
  • From the "Mico" section of Australian Coco May 1985. "Cattle Baron" is an original board game By John Day which simulates the life of a cattle raising Australian Pastoral Leaseholder. (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • The CoCo Collector - Episode 5 (Boisy Pitre)
  • ANNOUNCING VCC 2.1.0B (Bill Pierce)
  • PC booting from a vinyl record (earrape warning) (Jozef Bogin)
  • Classics Coder - An easy to use IDE for Vectrex programming (TheClassicsCoder @ YouTube)
    
    
  • The CoCo Collector - Episode 6 (Boisy Pitre)
  • ok, so the 4voice routine is playing ball (with roughly 50% free cpu time) (Simon Jonassen)
    playing with the 4voice player (3 voices in this case) and also APULTRA compression
  • From Mike Mayfield's HP BASIC version of his classic game. This version has been ported to the TRS-80 MC-10 from source copyrighted in 1972. (Jim Gerrie)
  • How to load Dragon 32 games from sd card (You Make Robots @ YouTube)
    
    
  • Dot Matrix is Better than you Don't Remember! (Nostalgia Nerd @ YouTube)
  • Debugging Tactics... (Richard Campbell)
  • This is another good project for the VZ by removing Z80 and plugging this in you have a DMA blitter. (Peter Carr)
  • 30 years later, QBasic is still the best (Nicolas Bize)
    
    
  • Color BASIC “DATA” quirk. (Allen Huffman)
  • After I finished the post-mortem of Digger III I got to work figure out out the best way to revamp my toolset to better fit a cross-development environment and support newer hardware (MSX+, PSG's, etc.). (Chet Simpson)
    Let's skip ahead a couple of pages and see what else KAOS has cookin'
  • RatRun 1979 BY C.T. NADOVICH This my port of the classic Commodore PET game to Micro Color BASIC for the TRS-80 MC-10. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Im writing and programming my first real video game , a modern gambling / dating sim adult humor game for the coco3 ! (MrDave @ AtariAge)
    
    
  • I've been adding 6801 op-codes to Joe Allen's Motorola EXORciser Simulator, Exorsim. (Joel Rees)
  • Mine Escape By Clive Gifford. This version ported from Dragon 32 BASIC to Micro Color BASIC on the TRS-80 MC-10. (Jim Gerrie)
  • MCX32-SD FILE BROWSER (Darren Ottery)
  • Is there a new EmCee server version that pyDriveWire is no longer compatible with? (Robert Allen Murphey)
• Feedback (1:15:11)
  • "New listener here! Glad to find this podcast. I am an MC-10 nerd." -- J Rodney Rollins
  • "In addition to scoreboard, game countdown/countup clocks timers also lend themselves to fairly easily manipulation as BCD rather than converting in and out of hex/binary to decimal string." -- Robert Murphey
  • "I’m biased but Glenside coverage would be appreciated." -- Jim Brain
  • Listener Question of the Month -- Do you prefer A Cleaned restored case, or aged patina case? (Tim Hollars)
• This Month In CoCo History -- Christmas 1980 (1:19:44)
• Host Discussion -- Are former "family computer" kids different from former "bedroom computer" kids? How so? (1:25:19)
• Interview w/ Chris Burke (1:35:28)
• Tech Segment -- convert binary numbers into binary-coded decimal (BCD) (2:23:47)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of SUKS (2:38:05)
• Parting Thoughts (2:42:42)

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